Using a quasi-experimental design with pooled cross section over time model, this paper explore the effect of the financial crisis known as the Great Recession on the labor supply in Ecuador. The remittances perceived declined due to the economic contraction in the United States and Spain, so...

In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly interested in the effect of pre-school education on the children’s academic results. We found fairly strong empirical...

An analysis of schoolchildren’s outcomes for the cohort that did their first year in public schools in Montevideo in 1999 shows that one of the main problems is that a low proportion of children completed the six-year primary school cycle on schedule because so many had a high repetition rate....